On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:05:18AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 19-Jun-01, 04:06 (CDT), Adam Heath <adam@lapdoog.doogie.brainfood.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Brad Pfautsch wrote: > > That's basically true, in that there's no way to recover the > /var/lib/dpkg/info directory (which has all maintainer scripts, file > lists, etc.), but you should look in the /var/backups directory for a > copy of your dpkg status file, which will at least tell you what you had > installed, and with a little scripting can probably be used to automate > at least some of the reinstall. or you can use the output from ls /usr/doc to automate this process. Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "It's a modern Unix! It's stable, superior, enriching! It's gonna get creamed." -- Richard Brandt, Upside
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